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Despite being non-verbal 17-year-old Troy McKay has used his voice to create a unique choir. Troy is a pupil at Fleming Fulton Special School in Belfast, and communicates through an app on his wheelchair.

A disabled campaigner claims the disability charity RNIB has “washed its hands” of those with the most significant levels of visual impairment, after scrapping its long-established free braille transcription service.

Women with disabilities are the biggest minority group in the world, but are still shut out of society. In an extract from her new book, the writer Frances Ryan reveals how that is changing – and what more needs to be done.

A number of Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations have told the BBC they are considering stepping back from working with the government over proposed benefit cuts.

A Hampshire charity that employs dozens of disabled people says it’s fighting for survival due to delayed payments from the Government’s Access to Work Plus scheme. Yateley Industries claims it’s around £150,000 out of pocket, which has been owed to them since October last year. The charity was set up in 1937 to give people with disabilities as much independence as possible.